Saturday, November 5, 2011
It's november
Yeah. Time flies by. But sometimes it doesn't seem to make sense to me. Like for example I know I've been through a lot of stuff in the army for the past (nearly) 9 months, and yet everything seems to have zoomed past and sometimes I find myself unable to remember much details from the things that I knew were supposed to be memorable, whether good or bad. This feeling that I've basically spent 9 months this year doing things that I can barely remember sucks. Why :( I don't want to simply live in the moment, and forget everything when it's over. Maybe it's a sign that I'm wasting my life away.
Lion King was awesome! The sets and costumes were so elaborate zomgzomg
Mylo Xyloto is WOW. It was a damn good album that is befitting for a band like Coldplay haha. I love how Coldplay dares to try new things in every album, and so far it has always been a success (to me at least).
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Saturday, August 6, 2011
Founder's Day and other musings
Went back to school a few weeks ago for Founder's Day, it was a great feeling :D meeting up with a bunch of old friends and teachers as well as some juniors who are truly imba.
Rushed from guard duty to RI, was an hour "late", only to realize that I could have been half an hour later and not missed a thing. Zz. should not have ran from guardhouse to company line and back. could have taken a leisurely stroll =.= never trust the timings written on invitations lol. And really, 2 hours for rehearsal? I don't think so!
Mrs Lim's speech highlighted many of the new things happening. Wowz. the new "command centre" is up and working, but that's not all. The Raffles Diploma is now fully-fledged and the new batch will be awarded various kinds of the diploma. that being said i'm not exactly very jealous of them haha, from what I know and heard from the juniors it's kinda difficult and needs lots of hard work to get the diploma with distinction. yeah. and they're complaining left right centre.
What is really making me jealous is the "gap semester" for sec4s. like, wow? visit CERN, go to UN HQ, do math in Stanford. It's really like a 5 month OSAP (which I never had the chance to go for), with even more attractive venues and programs. :O why wasn't I born a few years later..
But then, had I been born a few years later, I would definitely have complained about missing out something else by a few years (maybe an attachment with NASA, which will be :OOO). It's like that isn't it? There's always something that we miss out by a bit (raffles programme, RA, Hodge Lodge even, now this gap semester thing). and this will never end. the day it ends is the day that Raffles (or any other organization, for that matter) stops improving.
I've been reading a novel called "Homer and Langley" (thanks cornell for the free book haha) and in it a "theory of replacements" is mentioned. it is said that this theory is the basis for everything in life. And it seems right doesn't it? A new, exciting programme will only be replaced by a newer, more exciting one. And that's how it will be. I'm actually proud of being a Rafflesian, and proud of being a part of this Institution that never ceases to innovate and excite. Strange, actually. While I was in school I never had such a feeling. But yeah. It's a good feeling really.
Met Haran today! yay after so long :D hopefully he'll come round during his vacations (not very hard for him actually, since he gets free tickets anyway haha)
That time of year is here. People are starting to leave for uni overseas. well, actually only 4 ppl from my class are leaving this year (the rest who're going overseas are already not in sg haha). But they'll be back in december (hopefully). And it was a pleasant surprise that many scholars are back in sg for university. yay at least there are people to keep the NS dudes company.
Flying to taiwan later, hopefully it'll be a fruitful 3 weeks :D looking forward to the R&R haha!
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
every teardrop is a waterfall
one more week to "POP", basically it's the end of foundation term. And i get to become a corporal :D and wear a beret heh. only 28km route march left! gogogo!
still don't know my posting yet.. sigh. need to wait until like thursday :\
Plans to watch kung fu panda 2 today were disrupted thanks to heavy rain. fml lol stayed at home the whole day.
Can't wait to hang out with astro ppl! and the rest of the everybody whom i've not seen for so long :\ To be entirely honest, 6O outings, though still fun, have kinda lost its initial appeal that it had. Cauz we always end up doing the same things, watching movies which is the most anti-social thing you can think of, play pool, sing the same songs at Kbox (sheryl said this), and deciding what to do when there's nothing to do. and don't reach a decision anyway. But then again people will start leaving sg soon, xiaozhi already did, plus all the rest of the ppl going for uni this year, so should start treasuring all the outings! But then... dunno. somehow i just don't feel that enthu going for class outings anymore :[ sucks doesn't it. I'd rather have smaller group outings O: and somehow I've stopped planning all the outings. oh my.
Coldplay's new song is out! Still very coldplay-ish (Y). can't wait their new album :D
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